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TOUR SOL INVICTUS | 08.08.2015 | Heavy Montreal

Venue

Heavy Montreal, Parc Jean-Drapeau. Canada

Tour Talk

Two transmissions from Roddy tonight. Firstly he finishes
his chat with Jon Hudson from the previous night. Secondly a funny conversation
with Bill Gould about their mischievous school days together.......ringing in a
bomb threat to their local Safeway.... Doh!

"Monrrrrrréal , do you really like heavy metal gold
this festival is overrated ? " Was so amused Patton asked at the hearing.
The answer was pretty convincing ... Especially near the stage . Because even
if the event is dedicated to a genre generally very muscular , participants
were surprisingly quiet and relaxed at the site on Saturday night. Good, they
seemed not sulk pleasure either. At least for the majority. For some fans of
hard music, arms crossed , appeared in scan mode ... Like, " I like or I
do not like what I see and hear ? "

Boom! The lively and metal Midlife Crisis ( the other big
album, Angel Dust , released in 1992) arrived with her catchy chorus . We
should not forget this short passage in which the singer offered some words of
the play The Power of Love , Celine Dion. Fun.

Faith No More began the evening with the title "Motherfucker,"
from their new album Sol Invictus, released last May. The training continued
with "From Out of Nowhere" taken from The Real Thing and the
contagious energy of the group was forwarded to the crowd. The public seemed
delighted to hear classics like "Caffeine", "Epic" and
"Everything's Ruined". The surprise was to hear a mashup of
"Midlife Crisis" interspersed with "The Power Of Love
Interlude" Celine Dion, while the singer mimed few vulgar gestures ...

Shortly after singing a new play, "Separation
Anxiety", the group interacted with the audience and returned to the riot
Stadium, during their last visit to Montreal, 23 years ago. During that famous
concert, Metallica could not finish the show due to injury (James Hetfield
suffered second degree burns) and Guns N 'Roses, subsequently decided to stop
playing after only a few songs. The guys from Faith No More have been careful
to say that they had nothing to do with this incident.

It's hard to conjure the beatific command that Roddy Bottum
holds, standing over his keyboard like a preacher at his pulpit. It's difficult
to explain the chemistry between Jon Hudson and Mike Bordin and Billy Gould,
tossing the focal point of a song between them effortlessly. And it's fully
impossible to explain what it is like to watch Mike Patton howl, shriek and
contort on stage, his slicked-back dark hair becoming wilder and more sweat-soaked
with every song. Patton was in a mean mood: "Motherfucker," which
they opened with, sounded like even more of a threat than usual, and there was
something pointed, even cruel, about his delivery of the bit of "Power of
Love" by Celine Dion that served as an intro do "Midlife
Crisis."

He seemed to warm to the roaring, ravenous crowd eventually,
however, diving into the pit at the end of "Ashes to Ashes" (and
theatrically hobbling back to the stage afterwards), and seeming to genuinely
mean it when he sang Burt Bacharach's "This Guy's in Love With You"
as part of the encore. Faith No More have been doing this for a long time, but
their longevity has only made them meaner, more cruel and decadent, with every
passing year. Lucky us.